Spangled fabric.



Patented Aug. 22, |899.

No. salmo.

' A. H.V KunsHEEDT.

SPANGLED FABRIC.

:Application led May 21, 1898,)

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ALPHONSE H. KURSHEEDT, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

SPANGLED FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 631,310, dated August22, 1899.

Application filed May 2l, 1898. Serial No. 681,292. (Specimens.)

T0 all whmwt may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHONSE H. KUR- SHEEDT, residing in the borough ofManhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful- Improvements in Spangled Fabric, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to Spangled fabrics, and has for its object toproduce a Spangled fabric of such a character that it may be rapidlyproduced with the aid of machinery, the spangles being secured in placeupon the fabric by a sewing mechanism or' mechanism in the nature of asewing machine.

My invention will be understood by referring to the accompanyingdrawings, in which*Y- Figure l is a plan View of a spangledyfabricembodying my invention, the same being shown upon a very large scale inorder to clearly exhibit the structure thereof. `Figl 2 is a section online 2 2 of Fig l.

In the drawings,which show one form of my invention, l is a fabricbearing the spangles a b c d 4e. These spangles are held in place uponthe fabric by a thread n and a thread s. In the present instance thethread n will be called the needle-thread and the thread s the shuttlethread. These threads are shown inl the present instance as running asfollows: The needle-thread 'n passes downward through the fabric in aloop n', through which loop the shuttleethread s passes in a loop s.Thence the needle-thread ascends, passing through the eye a of thespangle c, thence across its -upper face to its edge o2, thence downwardthrough the fabric 1 in a loop n2, through which the shuttle-thread spasses in a loop s2, thence upward through the eye h in the spangle b,thence across the face of the spangle b to its edge h2, where itdescends `throu gh the fabric in a loop n3, through which theshuttle-thread s passes in a loop s3, and p so on, repeating thesecourses. It will be obvious that this construction illustrated may bemore or less varied without departing from the spirit of my invention.Itwill be observed that the spangles are strung upon the thread n-'thatis to say, the thread passes through the eyes of the spangles in acontinu-V ous course instead of passing therethrough in a loop.Consequently the thread crosses only half of the exposed face of thespangle instead of crossing them from edge to edge.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. As a new and useful article of manufacture, a structure of thecharacter described, to wit, a fabric l, a series of spangles laid iiatwise and means for securing the said spangles to the said fabric,comprising a plurality of threads, one of the said threadsv passingthrough the spangles in series and another thread s interlocking withthe said first-mentioned thread at points in the length of the saidthread between the points inthe length of said thread where it passesthrough adjacent spangles, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

2. As a new and useful article of manufacture, a structure of thecharacter described, to wit, a fabric, a thread, a series of spanglesstrung on the said thread and carried iiatwise on the fabric, the saidthread extending into the fabric in loops and secured to the fabric atintervals by a thread on the opposite side of said fabric extendingthrough the loops of the first-mentioned thread to interlock therewith.

ALPHONSE H. KURSHEEDT.

Witnesses:

OWEN WARD, O. R. COMES, GEO. E. MORSE.

